Never was a stretcher and never do any drills for running, and never will. Ice baths are a waste of time. I never took ice baths after the marathons I did, or the 50K.
I agree the Soc Doc's bozos campaign comes off as a cheap trick to draw web traffic, but TJ assures us that it is not, that he's really a nice guy who sincerely believes in his message.
Also, in terms of standing at a desk, I have a little stand that I put on top of a desk. It can be put in my trunk.
I'm a fidgety person, not much of a stand still type. So when I stand, I shift weight, I stop to do exercises on one foot, I walk back and forth away from my desk a few feet here and there when I'm thinking, and yes, when I get bored, I will work on the floor in a squat position.
Yes, my office mate gets very annoyed with my constant moving around. However, I do think having a stand up desk allows you to move around as much as anything. Sitting makes me sleepy and my body will stay in the same spot for a long time. When you are already standing, it feels easier to wiggle around as need be.
Willie, hard core on the ice baths! Why do you do them? Or are there other threads where this topic is covered?
I recently started to include elements of Mark Verstegen´s "Core Performance" program..
I also subscribe to that principle: do what the pros do, because there's millions of dollars at stake, and every second or centimeter counts. But I'm not sure I want my testicles migrating back to their original position.You all know about the professional athletes being stufed into ice-chambers during halftime, right?
I also subscribe to that principle: do what the pros do, because there's millions of dollars at stake, and every second or centimeter counts. But I'm not sure I want my testicles migrating back to their original position.
That's my understanding too. Static stretching should only be done once the muscles are warmed up, although I do touch the ground and do a few other quick stretches before setting off on a run, or beginning my weights.it seems like the only clearly dangerous stretching is done for long periods on cold muscles to "warm up" before activity. From my understanding, you should not to stretching like that, and there is some consensus.
Yah, I didn't mean it in the sense that you're doing it because they're doing it, but rather that you're probably safe in justifying the practice because the pros do it. There are a lots of things I wouldn't do that pros do--like take performance enhancing drugs, or sacrifice long-term health for short-term performance goals--but whenever I wonder about the reasonableness of a given technique or training protocol, or some new fitness fad, I do find it useful to ask that question, kind of like the fitness version of the bumper sticker "what would Jesus (Buddha?) do" intended as a guideline for social behavior. When I was wondering about all the talk about barefoot running technique, it was useful to read up on what elite runners do, which turns out to be pretty much the same thing, in terms of proper form, and they had theorized it in more scientific terms, over a very long period of time (although of course the ideas are still evolving). Same with weight-training etc. What are the pros doing? I don't care what some fitness guru says about the 'core' (which doesn't really exist), for example, unless they work with the pros.well.... tbh, that isn't really my attitude, I was doing the ice bath thing long before I'd learned about the halftime cryo-therapy.
Oh, I don't know if someone has already mentioned this, but you (Adam) asked about drills. Dr. Mark's video at the Natural Running Center has a part with some drills in it. I haven't tried them, but they look interesting.
Yah, that's where I'm at. There are several things I'd like to try, but I got a routine that more or less works for me, and little time or energy to work in new stuff, although I did just make a homemade t-bar and have done some kettlebell swings with it right after I do my deadlifts and power cleans. It seems like a good 'finishing exercise' for those kinds of lifts.Oh yeah, that was a great video and awesome drills. I like the to look at them but I never physically do them myself, maybe I should. My time is so limited that I just hit the door running instead of worrying about the extra stuff.
so, back to the subject in hand... I'm still very interested in seeing some other people daily routines spelled out.
With time I hope to add mileage to my runs, but only after I can run an 8-minute pace on my steady pace run.